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Trying to write about the failure of software development but it just keeps coming back to "you should all have read 'The Design Of Everyday Things' like ten years ago"

Okay I figured out how to write something constructive on this whole thing. I doubt I'm the first to identify the design debt problem in the FOSS world but I thought I'd record my thoughts on it anyway https://blog.objectionable.solutions/post/on-design-debt/

Trying to write about the failure of software development but it just keeps coming back to "you should all have read 'The Design Of Everyday Things' like ten years ago"

Alright back to work again! … Why isn’t anything loading?

Trying out publii to see if I'd recommend it to friends/family and so far the verdict is a rather strong "yes" Notion-style editing is always a plus, and the customizability is pretty decent. I doubt I'll end up using it myself. But it fits the bill for a lot of others. Since I can just tell t[...]

nixos is so cool

I think I might still end up using rust for Idea

Idk, I'm not really aware of any imperative language where the primary supported workflow is source->executable which isn't C/C++

Okay my current list of reference material is Hugo Jekyll and Middleman. Those three seem to be the ones most similar to PHP and thus have some chance of actually replacing what I do with them

I'm probably going to start prototyping this with shell script and systemd config

rubixraptor's newest project is so cool. Combining ttrpg elements with ArmA ops and character creation is extremely cool. I realllly want to run something like that sometime as well.

Wrapping my head around infinite lists. Whuh

Wrapping my head around do-notation. I thought it was similar to an "unsafe" block in that it just disabled some of the features and let me write imperative stuff. But no, it's sugar for using monads _everywhere_, good to know.<

Wrapping my head around infinite lists. Whuh

I'm still struggling a little to properly read haskell, but so far I'm starting to Get It. The main thing throwing me off so far is that a lot of stuff has at least 2 ways of expressing (e.g, the $ and . operators (?? is that what they're called?)). Which makes mentally parsing some bits a cha[...]

Also getting lambdas now, that's another symbol (\) demystified

I'm still struggling a little to properly read haskell, but so far I'm starting to Get It. The main thing throwing me off so far is that a lot of stuff has at least 2 ways of expressing (e.g, the $ and . operators (?? is that what they're called?)). Which makes mentally parsing some bits a cha[...]

Funny enough the thing this is doing most is parting the veil on what the fuck is going on in nix

I'm still struggling a little to properly read haskell, but so far I'm starting to Get It. The main thing throwing me off so far is that a lot of stuff has at least 2 ways of expressing (e.g, the $ and . operators (?? is that what they're called?)). Which makes mentally parsing some bits a cha[...]

Also haskell's core library seems to suffer from the same extreme shortening habits that the cstdlib people have. Which means I'm having to learn a whole new dialect of english again